A minor chorus : a novel / Billy-Ray Belcourt.
"A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban intelligentsia. Billy-Ray Belcourt's unnamed narrator chronicles a series of encounters: a heart-to-heart with fellow doctoral student River over the mounting pressure placed on marginalized scholars; a meeting with Michael, a closeted adult from his hometown whose vulnerability and loneliness punctuate the realities of queer life on the fringe. Amid these conversations, the narrator is haunted by memories of Jack, a cousin caught in the cycle of police violence, drugs, and survival. Jack's life parallels the narrator's own; the possibilities of escape and imprisonment are left to chance with colonialism stacking the odds. A Minor Chorus introduces the dazzling literary voice of a Lambda Literary Award winner and Canadian #1 national best-selling poet to the United States, shining much-needed light on the realities of Indigenous survival"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781324021421
- ISBN: 132402142X
- Physical Description: 162 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]
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Subject: | Doctoral students > Fiction. Sexual minorities > Fiction. Cree people > Fiction. Alberta, Northern > Fiction. |
Genre: | Novels. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Dimmick Main Library | F BEL (Text) | 304441003420731 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | BELCOURT (Text) | 31901004658284 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |